Re: [CSP] Additional report field: report-only: "true|false"

This request was motivated by getting more metrics. Metrics for this
purpose certainly do not align with your basic value concept, and I
can only think of one far-fetched example of where this might help in
changing how I act on reports.


On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 12:13 AM, Mike West <mkwst@google.com> wrote:
> What would you do with this information?
>
> The basic value of the reporting functionality is to find places where
> unexpected requests for resources are being made. What would knowing whether
> the request went through or not change in the way that you deal with the
> report?
>
> -mike
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> On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 4:14 AM, Devdatta Akhawe <dev.akhawe@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> I think the separate report URIs (via extra params or different end
>> points) is the easier option here.
>>
>>
>> On 25 June 2014 20:33, Neil Matatall <neilm@twitter.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I'd like to propose adding a new field to the CSP reports: report-only.
>>>
>>> It's [arguably] valuable to know whether or not the policy was
>>> enforced when a given violation report is generated. Sometimes
>>> policies are enforced for a percentage or defined subset of users (or
>>> not at all), but there is no way to determine this from the report
>>> without "smuggling" params in the report-uri.
>>>
>>> As you can probably tell, I'm not entirely convinced this is even
>>> worth while (like my status code proposal).
>>>
>>
>

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